JAKARTA The Indonesian government has launched a program that will pay thousands of traditional fishers to collect plastic trash from the sea. The four-week initiative is part of wider efforts to cut marine plastic waste by 70% by 2025. The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries said on Oct. 4 that it had budgeted […]
Tangled up too often in fishing nets, manta rays have been plunging toward extinction as fishing pressure and other stressors take a toll on their populations. But the species has found a safe haven in Komodo National Park, a swath of water around Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands. A new study identified an aggregation of 1,085 […]
Scientists estimated for the first time the number of rays off Komodo National Park in Indonesia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the species are a tourist attraction.
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